Introduction

Tourism is a popular economic activity that has developed significantly over the years. It’s an activity that can bring benefits to a country’s government and its local residents. Such activity is recognized in almost every nation in the world. Thus, it is important for us to know how can the wealth of a country can impact tourism. Accordingly, for this group project our team is going to analyze the correlation between a country’s GDP and the number of outbound tourists each country has using the Number of Tourists vs GDP Data-Set. The data was collected through several avenues. The country’s prosperity was calculated based on the Global World Bank’s World Development Indicators – gross domestic product purchasing power parity (GDP PPP). This is a country’s GDP converted to international dollars. The number of outbound tourists was calculated based on data from the Global World Bank which measured the number of times a citizen made a departure from their country for non-commercial purposes. This data set covers from 1995 to 2016.

Summary Information

In this summary we will be analyzing the data-set stated above. There are a total of 234 countries that had been recorded into this data-set. Macao has the highest GDP per Capita recorded on the list, with 135318.75 dollars achieved in 2013. In the same year, Macao has attracted 1446000 outbound tourists. Furthermore, in 2016 the number hit a record high of 1458775936 outbound tourists worldwide, also, the average GDP per Capita for a country was also at its peak of 15080.38 dollars.

Table of Aggregated Data

Number of tourists outbound vs level of prosperity of the world, 1995 to 2016
Year Average GDP per Capita Number of Tourists
1995 9242.10 629991289
1996 9460.22 652893369
1997 9696.60 686266650
1998 9799.54 721785802
1999 10008.36 756666384
2000 10345.60 828012569
2001 10452.59 838344874
2002 10602.44 843989669
2003 10865.27 842794682
2004 11309.72 914515368
2005 11697.96 974343181
2006 12170.49 998713242
2007 12671.51 1068407987
2008 12873.98 1096240770
2009 12669.08 1055757171
2010 13175.93 1137240813
2011 13555.68 1185655534
2012 13838.01 1241046773
2013 14137.55 1302591114
2014 14462.39 1324620108
2015 14778.03 1385033318
2016 15080.38 1458775936

The aggregated data table takes a closer look at the data-set. The table above is grouped by year and it is sorted from the late 90s to more recent times. Moreover, the table shows the average GDP per Capita of the world and the number of outbound tourists with its corresponding period. As shown on the table, as the average GDP per Capita increases by each year, the number of outbound tourists also increases. A reason for this could be as people continue to earn more money year by year, more individuals are willing to spend on traveling.

Charts

Chart 1

This plot shows the relationship between number of outbound tourists and prosperity of the home country from 2000 to 2016. Furthermore, the plot indicates that countries with higher GDP per Capita is not always the country that has the most tourist outbound.

Chart 2

This is an interactive world map that displays the GDP per Capita of each country through the gradient of blue shown on the map. This map also proves the interpretations above, take China for example, it has lower GDP per Capita than Canada, but has more tourists outbound.

Chart 3

From this Total Number of Tourists in the World per Year plot we can tell that the number of tourists is steadily increasing from 1995 to 2015.